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Drama starring Kim Stanley
Richard Attenborough
Claiming to be a medium, unbalanced
Myra Savage goes to desperate lengths to seek recognition of her abilities. Director Bryan Forbes (1964)
Black and white ♦ See Films: pages 51-60 ***

Contributors

Unknown:
Kim Stanley
Unknown:
Richard Attenborough
Unknown:
Myra Savage
Director:
Bryan Forbes

Former Gladiator Nikki Diamond, who competed in Miss World during the early eighties, in one of the guests as Esther Rantzen talks to ex-beauty queens about their experiences.

Contributors

Presenter:
Esther Rantzen
Guest:
Nikki Diamond

Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend, the adaptation of which finishes at 9pm, had much to say about society. Dr Jonathan Miller, historian Roy Porter and Professor Michael Slater talk about its themes, while Miriam Margolyes reads extracts.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)

Booklet: for a booklet about the social history reflected in the series, send a cheque for £4.99 made payable to BBC Education Production to [address removed] Web Site: [web address removed]

Contributors

Speaker:
Dr Jonathan Miller
Speaker:
Roy Porter
Speaker:
Professor Michael Slater
Reader:
Miriam Margolyes
Producer:
Sara Feilden
Executive producer:
Angie Mason

Adam Hart-Davis searches for unsung heroes of science on a trip to the Potteries, Staffordshire. Using a few pipes, a ribbon and an air pump, he demonstrates the early ideas for a voice synthesiser that were developed by Erasmus Darwin. Charles Darwin's grandfather.
Other subjects include John "Iron Mad" Wilkinson, who perfected the aim of the cannon.

Local Heroes Kit: a cheque for £9.95 payable to BBC Education, to [address removed] Or phone [number removed]. Calls charged at national rate.

Contributors

Presenter:
Adam Hart-Davis
Producer:
Paul Bader
Executive Producer:
Jonathan Drori

Chef Ainsley Harriott concludes his culinary series by creating chicken fricassee, Pavarotti pasta and spiced shish kebabs when he meets a childminder, an intensive-care sister and an athlete, all with busy lifestyles.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)
See Food: page 33

Contributors

Presenter/Chef:
Ainsley Harriott
Director:
Derek Hallworth
Producer:
Caroline Officer

The series exploring new media looks at the prospects for the Government's idea to promote a National Grid for Learning and asks whether the classrooms hooked up to the information superhighway will be taken over by technology companies.
And, in a rare TV interview, bestselling writer Tom Clancy reveals why he is moving from novels to computer games.
(Stereo)
Web Site: [web address removed]

Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Interviewee:
Tom Clancy
Producer:
Joanne Evans
Editor:
Andrew Chitty

(Note: repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 A Question of Identity: Berlin and Berliners
1.30 Christopher Plantin, Polyglot Printer of Antwerp

GCSE Bitesize Revision
2.00 Maths

Languages
4.00 The New Get by in French: Part 2)

Business and Training
5.00 Skills for Work

Open University
5.45 Venice and Antwerp: the Cities Compared
6.10 Scotland in the Enlightenment
(Subtitled)
6.35-7.00am Rodin
The artist's career.

BBC Two England

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